Firstly, I hope you and your family are healthy and safe during this unsettling
time. Secondly, I'd like to thank you so much for your generous gift(s) to
support our latest fight against the National Institutes of Health's (NIH)
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Taxpayer, did you know you are paying to make turtles run
on treadmills?

Surprise: you are.

(But while we're at it, you're also paying-off the feds to make monkeys, fish, mountain lions, puppies, and, well,
just about every other lab critter run on treadmills).

Taxpayer, you're a taxpayer. You have a RIGHT (and
responsibility!) to know who's paying the bills... and who's cashing the checks.

So on your behalf, we campaigned for a critical NEW oversight panel and a public
website reporting how the COVID-19 stimulus funds are being spent.
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VICTORY: thanks 100% to your donations and support, we won! The legislation includes
both of WCW's common sense, government accountability measures.

And Taxpayer, I have some more GOOD NEWS...

Because thousands of taxpayers like you stepped up, we not only met our
end-of-quarter fundraising goal... we slightly exceeded it!

Now WCW can continue running (and winning!) more hard-hitting campaigns to close
NIH's primate Fear Factory, and cut funding for China's wet markets and animal
experiments.

NEXT UP: let's put the FINAL NAIL in the coffin of taxpayer-funded treadmill torture at
the Dept. of Veterans Affairs!

Thanks, Taxpayer. I'm so grateful for your loyalty. We
won't let you down.

Onward!


Anthony Bellotti
President | Founder
White Coat Waste Project

P.S. Taxpayer, sunlight is the best disinfectant. So
check out this new op-ed from WCW's Justin Goodman and FreedomWork's Jason Pye.
See how we're cleaning up the waste... one government lab at a time.
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Watch for Waste in Stimulus Spending
JUSTIN GOODMAN & JASON PYE | March 24, 2020
The Trump Administration and Congress are hashing out a stimulus package
expected to cost taxpayers over $2 trillion to combat the devastating effects of
the coronavirus outbreak on workers, businesses, and the economy.

American families are hurting and Congress has a responsibility to consider
targeted measures that help those who are feeling the economic effects of this
pandemic. However, even in times of crisis, systems for transparency and
accountability are needed to ensure these precious public dollars are not
wasted.

With the pork stuffed into some of the COVID-19 stimulus proposals—like
Democrats' plan to bail out the U.S. Postal Service's debt, reform small
newspapers' pension programs, and give a $35 million payout to D.C.'s John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—we need to be vigilant to ensure this
stimulus doesn't turn into a slush fund as others have.

A decade ago, President Barack Obama enacted an $862 billion stimulus package to
reverse the Great Recession that followed the financial crisis. The program fell
short of its lofty job creation, infrastructure, and growth goals, in part
because too much stimulus money was spent on irrelevant and inefficient
programs.

Many people have heard about the $535 million in stimulus money wasted when
failed solar panel company Solyndra went under, but waste, fraud, and abuse
under the previous stimulus program were widespread.

In 2010, a year after the stimulus was passed, former Senators Tom Coburn
(R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) released their now-legendary report,
“Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues.” The
report highlighted Obama stimulus projects that the Senators said had
“questionable goals,” were “being mismanaged or were poorly planned” and were
even “costing jobs and hurting small businesses.”

One infamous example from the stimulus report that attracted the ire of fiscal
hawks and animal-lovers was a $144,541 National Institutes of Health
(NIH)-funded experiment that hooked monkeys on cocaine. Coburn and McCain wrote,
“Researchers at Wake Forest University think that, in at least one case, it is
good to monkey around with your stimulus dollars.”

Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) later uncovered a study that used $560,000 in Obama
stimulus money from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to put fish on
treadmills.

Surely, this is not how Americans intended for this stimulus money to be spent,
and the opportunity still exists for this abuse of taxpayers under the guise of
a national emergency.

Earlier this month, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) lambasted an NSF-funded study
that wasted over $900,000 to place dead turtles and living turtles on a
treadmill to study how they move. White Coat Waste Project recently exposed that
the NIH shipped over $6 million in tax dollars to a U.K. university to addict
monkeys to cocaine, heroin, and alcohol and wasted more than $16 million scaring
monkeys with fake snakes and spiders.

Wasteful junkie monkey experiments and treadmill tests are alive and well, and
we can't let government bureaucrats and special interests exploit a tragedy
again to funnel vulnerable taxpayers' money to their pet projects.

Something the Obama Administration's stimulus bill got right was assigning an
independent body to oversee stimulus projects and launching Recovery.gov to
track spending and report abuse. For each project, the now-defunct government
website reported how much money was spent, the number of jobs created, and other
details.

Any stimulus bills that make it to the president's desk should include a
mechanism for independent oversight of spending and mandate a transparent and
user-friendly system allowing taxpayers and lawmakers to hold government
accountable for where stimulus money is going and what impact it has on the
economy.

Americans are rightfully worried about the health of their friends, families,
and 401Ks. We are, too. People shouldn't also have to worry that federal
emergency funds meant to save lives and livelihoods are being wasted to put fish
on treadmills or renovate an opera house.
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To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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